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Appendix B
PiagetWorksheet
Directions: Review Module 26 of Psychology and Your Life. Complete the matrix below and answer the questions that follow.
Cognitive Stage | Age Range | Major Characteristics |
Sensorimotor step | Birth-2 years | In this stage, motor skills, from experiences and physical interactions without the use of language, are learned. |
Preoperational step | 2 – 7 years | Children during this stage begin...

...development is the beginning to the ability to think and understand. Cognitive development focuses on child’s development of information processing, conceptual resources, perpetual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development. Piaget has four stages to his theory: Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Much of the research has gone into understanding how a child imagines the world. In Piaget’s view, early cognitive...

...Jean Piaget and cognitive development.
Cognitive development is the study of a child's development in terms of factors such as information processing, language acquisition and conceptual resources. A part of both neuroscience and psychology, cognitive development is concerned with understanding how a child negotiates meaning when first faced with the world, and how that meaning changes as the child becomes more communicative on a verbal level with other individuals. Key...

...Jean Piaget was a cognitive scientist who was academically trained in biology. He was hired to validate a standardised test of intelligence and from this became very interested in human thought. He was employed to take the age of which children answered each question correctly perfecting the norms for the IQ test. Although the wrong answers took Piagets attention and came to a conclusion that the way children think is a lot more revealing than what they know....

...theory on cognitive development. Piaget's theory of development is divided into four different stages; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, and formal operations. Jenna and I conducted an experiment in which we questioned two children, testing which Piaget stage they were in, and using our knowledge in psychology to place them in the correct stage in development.
The first stage is the sensorimotor stage which occurs during early childhood between birth and approximately...

...Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
His view of how children’s minds work and develop has been enormously influential, particularly in educational theory. His particular insight was the role of maturation in children’s increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so.
He proposed that children’s thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead, there are certain points at which it “takes off” and...